CodexBar is a macOS menu bar app that displays usage limits, balances, costs, and reset times for AI coding and related service providers. It is for people who use services such as Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot, or other supported providers and need to monitor their accounts. The catalogue add-ons extend its agent-related workflow.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to steipete/CodexBar. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/steipete/CodexBar/main/.agents/skills/qa-test/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/steipete/CodexBarWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/steipete/codexbar/qa-test)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/steipete/codexbar/qa-test"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/steipete/codexbar/qa-test/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/steipete/codexbar/qa-test"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/steipete/codexbar/qa-test.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Privilege Escalation · line 67 Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00055 | $0.01232 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00022 | $0.00493 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00246 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00123 |
Grade B, and why
qa-test scanned grade B with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation
A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.
chmod 600 "$HOME/.codexbar"/config.pre-qa-*.json How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
CodexBar Live QA
Use for live provider testing, release smoke tests, menu verification, or debugging “provider works/fails” reports.
Rules
- Work from the CodexBar repo checkout.
- Use the packaged CLI first:
CodexBar.app/Contents/Helpers/CodexBarCLI. - Do not use
CodexBar.app/Contents/MacOS/codexbar; that is the app binary and may appear to hang as a CLI. - Never run broad
env,set, or secret regex dumps. - Use
$one-passwordfor secrets: allopcommands inside one persistent tmux session, service account first, no raw secret output. - Treat browser-cookie/keychain flows as prompt-risky. Prefer CLI/API-token checks and
KeychainNoUIQuery-safe tests unless the user explicitly requested live UI. - For current API behavior, browse official provider docs only.
CLI Matrix
Run the bundled script:
.agents/skills/qa-test/scripts/live_provider_matrix.sh --enabled
Useful modes:
.agents/skills/qa-test/scripts/live_provider_matrix.sh --provider all
.agents/skills/qa-test/scripts/live_provider_matrix.sh --providers openai,zai,deepseek
.agents/skills/qa-test/scripts/live_provider_matrix.sh --default
Interpretation:
--enabledasksCodexBarCLI config providersfor enabled providers, honoringCODEXBAR_CONFIGand default toggles.--defaultruns the app-facing default command with no provider override.--provider allforces every registered provider and is expected to fail for providers without sessions/keys.- A green app config needs
--enabledand--defaultclean;--provider allis a discovery/triage tool.
Config QA
Validate config:
CodexBar.app/Contents/Helpers/CodexBarCLI config validate
stat -f '%Lp %N' "$HOME/.codexbar/config.json"
Redact config shape:
jq '(.providers // []) |= map(.apiKey = (if .apiKey then "<redacted>" else .apiKey end) |
.secretKey = (if .secretKey then "<redacted>" else .secretKey end) |
.cookieHeader = (if .cookieHeader then "<redacted>" else .cookieHeader end) |
(if .id == "stepfun" and has("region") then .region = "<redacted>" else . end) |
.tokenAccounts = (if .tokenAccounts then (.tokenAccounts | .accounts = (.accounts | map(.token = "<redacted>"))) else .tokenAccounts end))' \
"$HOME/.codexbar/config.json"
What ships with it
3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 1mo ago First seen · 119 lines · 55 tokens per session scan B 4265af12c0cf
qa-test is a skill published in the GitHub repository steipete/CodexBar (22,829 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,232 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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